Embroidered blanket

Ruth Brewster Sampson

1801 · Wool embroidered with wool · The American Wing

The cream-colored wool ground of this bed cover is embroidered with light and dark blue wool in flat stitch, chain stitch, outline stitch, and small dotlike running stitches. The central area is decorated with six small flowering trees. The border is in a "hillock" pattern. The wool ground is made up of three panels seamed together. There is a dark blue wool fringe on three sides.

Artist

Ruth Brewster Sampson

Date

1801

Medium

Wool embroidered with wool

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1928